(Sputnik) – If the Iraqi Kurds proclaim independence in their September 25 referendum, Israel will be the first country to recognize it, Aydin Selcen, Turkey’s former consul general in the Kurdish Regional Government’s capital Erbil, told Sputnik. Commenting on the upcoming referendum…

(GVO) – Just a few weeks after it adopted a controversial cybercrime law, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has gone after five journalists alleging that they “leaked information to hostile entities.” The government did not identify the entities in question, but four of the journalists arrested work with…

(GVO) – In a state of secrecy and lack of transparency, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently approved a new cybercrime law that further tightens the noose on Palestinians’ freedom of expression and privacy online. Palestinian media and civil society organizations have slammed the new law…

(HRW) – Military trials held by the Israeli army – a defining feature of the 50-year occupation – have a near 100-percent conviction rate and fall well short of any standards of justice. I recently attended a hearing in the trial of Palestinian human rights…

(Sputnik) – A day after graduating from high school, 17-year-old Henriette Karra was found stabbed to death in the kitchen of her family’s home in Ramle, Israel. According to the indictment filed by Central District state prosecutors, the assailant is allegedly none other…

GAZA CITY (Tasnim) – The besieged people of Gaza Strip, who have been under the Zionist regime’s sever sanctions for years, have resorted to rooftop agriculture to supply their families’ nutritional needs. According to Tasnim dispatches, the Gaza Strip is…

(HRW) – It is difficult to imagine the pain the Bakr family must have felt in July 2014, when an Israel Defense Force (IDF) missile killed four of their children, cousins Ismail, 9; Ahed, 10; Zakariya, 10; and Mohammad, 11, as…